Tiananmen Square: Thirty Years Later
This week’s story update on the Election Central Web recalls an important moment in China’s recent history. Here in the United States, we often take the right to protest for granted. But in China in 1989, the government strongly and publicly cracked down on a group of student protestors in Tiananmen Square, with deadly results […]
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25th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre On April 15, 1989 former Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Yaobang died of a heart attack. Although he had been forced to resign by the government, he was popular among the people who wished for more Western-style freedoms. To mourn his death, more than 50,000 students gathered in Beijing’s […]